Throughout Guatemala, Easter Week (Semana Santa) is celebrated as the most significant and festive season on every religious and social calendar. Joseph travels to Guatemala City, Antiqua and Lago ...

Guatemala is known the world over for its colorful processions during Cuaresma or the Lenten season leading up to Easter Sunday. Residents and tourists flock to Antigua and Guatemala City to see ...

Guatemala: Tourists should be aware that during the Semana Santa holiday season, crime does not take a holiday. Celebrated on and around Easter Sunday, the festivities draw large crowds ...

Easter week in one Guatemala town is an elaborate affair in which all residents come to celebrate. Now you can be part of the procession in Antigua in the country’s central highlands ...

and their belief in his resurrection on Easter. At Alejandro Juárez Toledo’s María Auxiliadora workshop about 25 miles (41 kilometers) southwest of Guatemala City, 28 artisans — mostly women ...

ANTIGUA GUATEMALA, Guatemala - The rising sun hasn ... create one of the world's most dazzling and moving displays of Easter devotion. That makes early spring an ideal time to visit this volcano ...

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That's what happened to me last year when I landed in Guatemala a week after Easter. This Central American nation is famous for the colorful, temporary carpets or alfombras that cover the cobblestone ...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei has banned travel between the different departments of the Central American country before and during Easter to curb the spread of ...